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Episode 68 - Band Pins
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Highlights
- Captain Fantastic (1976) by Bally was the best-selling EM pinball game of all time with almost 17,000 units
- There were 14 years between Rolling Stones (1980) and the next licensed music pinball game (The Who's Tommy in 1994)
- Dolly Parton (1979) remains the only female musician with her own dedicated pinball machine
- Data East Guns N' Roses (1994) was the first game to feature an exclusive never-before-released song ('Ain't Going Down') that only appeared on the pinball machine
- Gottlieb designed a Brooks and Dunn pinball game in the mid-1990s but never released it due to company liquidation
- Slash (Guns N' Roses guitarist) received co-design credit on the Data East Guns N' Roses pinball game
- Data East Guns N' Roses was the first production pinball game to come with a headphone jack in the cabinet
- Elvis (2004) marks the beginning of choosing band/musicians from earlier generations rather than contemporary artists
Notable quotes
“a Taylor Swift pin would be the single. like no other single license could make more of a positive impact to the hobby”
“Slash actually is a super big pinball head. He has been forever. He's actually probably the coolest guy that's into pinball ever. Right. Like the biggest celebrity, the coolest celebrity that's ever been into pinball.”
“it's like, there's a song about pinball. we should probably make another pinball machine about the song about pinball it still happens to this day too man”
“if you own a rock everyone thinks you own a heavy metal meltdown because these generic themes just kind of mix up with each other”
“the bands like they command stronger emotions both ways like people will fucking hate bands and there will be people that would like die for their band yeah and will buy a game even if it's dog shit because they love that band so much”
“this is probably the game that could have saved got leap in most likely pinball as we know it but we don't live in that world”
“ZZ Top fucking rips, dude”
“I would much rather be give me a great song and pair it with a different theme yeah that and we'll get to our overall opinions of you know kind of band pins in general”
Entities
- Bally· company
- Data East· company
- Gottlieb· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pintastic· event
- Brooks and Dunn· game
- Captain Fantastic· game
- Dolly Parton· game
- Elvis· game
- Guns N' Roses· game
- Kiss· game
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein· game
- Rolling Stones· game
- Ted Nugent· game
- The Who's Tommy· game
- Wedgehead· organization
- Alan· person
- Alex the Waterboy· person
- John Borg· person
- Lyman Sheets· person
- Pat Lawlor· person
- Slash· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
